1) This could be anything. From file system corruption, to a bug.

2) rpm –-rebuilddb will do what you need.

Steven Haigh

Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897

-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of M. Fioretti
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 8:27 PM
To: centos@centos.org
Subject: [CentOS] Damaged rpm database?

Hello,

while doing some maintenance on a Centos 4.4 box, I ran rpm -qa --last

and got:

error: rpmdb: damaged header #91 retrieved -- skipping.

...lots of lines identical to the one above and finally:

the_last_package_I_installed_yesterday.rpm

all the other rpms in reverse installation order

I've seen via google that this should mean there is a damaged rpm

database and it should be rebuilt with one or two command, however:

1) how can I find out _why_ the damage happened?

2) what are the right command and options to restore the database?

The examples I've found are 5+ years old, so I'm not really inclined

to run them as they are.

TIA,

Marco

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